We are very sad to report that Finbarr Livesey, author of From Global to Local (Profile Books/Pantheon), died peacefully on Monday 2 September. A memorial service will be held for Finbarr at Magdalene College, Cambridge, where he was a Fellow, on Thursday 12 September. Our thoughts are very much with his friends and young family.
I Am Dynamite! – Sue Prideaux‘s stunning new life of the German philosopher, Friedrich Nietzsche – has been shortlisted for the Historical Writers Association 2019 Non-Fiction Crown, alongside Helen Rappaport and Ben MacIntyre, among others. The winner will be announced at an award ceremony on the 6th of November.
Elleke Boehmer has won the Olive Schreiner Award for Prose, for her “enthralling” (JM Coetzee) historical novel THE SHOUTING IN THE DARK. She will collect her prize, awarded by the English Academy of Southern Africa, in Johannesburg next week, before flying on to Melbourne to receive her commendation from the Australian Book Review for her… Read more »
Lindsey Hilsum won the James Tait Black Prize for her biography of Marie Colvin, IN EXTREMIS. The £10,000 prize awarded each year by the University of Edinburgh, were announced by broadcaster Sally Magnusson at the Edinburgh International Book Festival on Saturday (17th August).
Authors Jenny Eclair, Kit de Waal, Sally Gardner and Bali Rai have been made ambassadors for national audiobook charity Listening Books as it marks its 60th anniversary. The four authors will help to promote the work of the charity and the importance of audiobooks as an accessible way for everyone to enjoy reading. Listening Books… Read more »
Grace Pengelly, Assistant Commissioning Editor at William Collins, has bought world rights in LETTERS TO THE EARTH. Published in partnership with climate movement Culture Declares Emergency, the letters will be co-curated by Anna Hope, and introduced by Dame Emma Thompson. Publication will be this November. LETTERS TO THE EARTH, a collection of letters from the… Read more »
Alex Reeve‘s debut novel, and the first in an historical crime series has been shortlisted for the Sapere Books Historical Dagger. Published in 2018, it was a Richard and Judy pick in 2019. Set in London in 1880, the book introduces Leo Stanhope, an assistant pathologist in love with Maria, and hiding a very big… Read more »
I AM DYNAMITE! by Sue Prideaux has been longlisted for the 2019 Historical Writers Association Sharpe Books Non-fiction crown. The shortlist will be announced on 4th September, and the prize giving will be on 6th November.
Peter Gatrell’s The Unsettling of Europe: The Great Migration, 1945 to the Present, which is published by Penguin Press in August, has sold to Ginkgo Book Co. for Simplified Chinese Character rights and to Giulio Einaudi Editore for Italian rights. Basic are publishing in the US.
Four University of Manchester academics have been made Fellows of The British Academy, in recognition of their contribution to the humanities and social sciences. Professor Peter Gatrell is among 76 distinguished scholars to be elected to the prestigious fellowship. He first established his academic reputation as an economic historian of tsarist Russia. Since then, his research has broken new… Read more »